All three galleries are most enjoyable. My favourite is Big Sur and the first photo my favourite of that set. It's absolutely iconic.
Cheers, frank Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >I just spent slightly less than a week on the road. I took my usual >metric shitload of photos, a lot of which were just happy snaps and >many were for stitching into panoramas if/when I have a chance. > >I did get a few that didn't suck too badly. > >I drove down to LA on Sunday by way of Big Sur, the weather was >beautiful, and >the roads were clogged with tourists. In the future, I think that I'll >do >my best to avoid Big Sur on weekends. I managed to spend a few hours >at >Limekiln, which was one of my favorite places to go as a kid. > >Big Sur: >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424720424/ > >We spent our first night in the desert in Mojave. That evening we >tried to >find the site of Nowak's opal mine, were we used to hunt for fire opal >when I was a kid. We spent some time driving dirt roads in Lorry, my >Dodge van. I had fun, Candace didn't really enjoy the off road >experience. > >I tried to use my astrotracer and the tamron 300/2.8 to get some photos >of Andromeda but failed miserably. I did play a bit with my Korean >fisheye >though. > >The next morning we had brunch at the Voyager Cafe at the Mojave >spaceport. >That evening we drove as far a Lone Pine, which turned out to be far >more >scenic than we expected and we ended up spending an extra day there. > >Desert: >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424755274/ > >The following day we drove out Death Valley, getting in a little >shooting >before sunset. I had fun trying to catch the new moon setting. Didn't > >quite get the shot I wanted, but it was still fun. We spent the night >in >Beatty Nevada, about 45 minutes out of the park, and surprisingly >picturesque. That night we did some night photography in the ghost >town >of Rhyolite. I played a bit with my astrotracer. > >Most of Friday was spent at Zabriskie Point, which is ridiculously >scenic. >We got there in the mid afternoon. I think that for a lot of the >photos, >the lighting would be best in the morning. The walk down to the valley > >floor is much easier than it looks, and well worth it, especially in >the >canyons to the left of the lookout, looking towards the desert. It's >very easy to get beautiful shots of the gorgeous rock formations, but >a bit more challenging to get shots that aren't monontonously >beautiful, >all looking pretty much alike. > >I did manage to get a little bit lost on my way back out of the >canyon, and climbing out of canyons, in the dark (albeit with >headlamp), >up steep dirt cliffs, when overweight and out of shape was a special >kind of fun. > >Death Valley: >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424829284/ > >Candice has posted a couple of sets from her trip: >Mojave: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639413836205/ >Red Rock Canyon: >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639412196866/ > >If I have some spare time, I may go back and process and post some more > >photos from the trip. “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
